Downloading and Installing Adobe Reader Corrupts Many Programs

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adam

Hi:

I uninstalled Adobe Reader 8.0 and cleaned the Registry because my desktop
icons for shortcuts to many of my programs (Word, AVG 8.0, Spybot Search and
Destroy, Hewlet Packard Printer) now had the Adobe Acrobat Icon. Selecting
any of the desktop shortcuts (i.e., AVG 8.0 or my HP printer icon) opened
Adobe Reader installation file (an executable). I rebooted and did a fresh
install of Adobe Reader 9.0 and the same issue. If I go to my Programs
folder, the original programs listed above also have the Adobe Icon. If I
uninstall Adobe and download and install any other program (i.e.,
Killbox.exe) there are no issues.

Any ideas?

Thank you.
 
I backed-up the registry and then manually deleted all references to
"Adobe". That is what I meant by cleaning the registry. No, there have been
no previous registry cleanings. I did a GOOGLE search and there are a few
complaints about desktop icons changing to the Adobe icon. For example,
"Adobe reader installation completes and all of the desktop icons change to
the Adobe icon and it tries to open the files with that program. When I
uninstall it goes back to the way it was."
 
Well, I found Adobe Reader 5.0 and it installed without any issues. I
upgraded to 5.1, and then 6.0, which is where I stopped since version 7.0.9
is the first version to show the issue that I am writing about. Just to be
sure, versions 8 and 9 continue to change the desktop icons, so I uninstalled
each version and have a working version 6.0 of Adobe Reader. If anyone has a
solution to a working upgrade, I would appreciate your thoughts.

Thank you.
 
Strange, I have reader 8.13 just updated and have no such issues (Vista
Business)
Any clues on the adobe forum/group?
 
I submitted a formal inquiry to Adobe and am awaiting their response. I will
share the reply with this Group.

Adam
 
Hi:

Well, I needed the functionality of Adobe Reader 9.0, so I resorted to
downloading Foxit PDF Reader and Editor. I have had good sudccess with these
PDF frreeware programs. Nice to know there is not a monopoply on working with
PDF files. VISTA is a nightmare.
 
Hi, dcrane.

I have no idea what "the identical problem" might be, since you did not
quote any prior context, I do not subscribe to VistaHeads, and that forum
did not quote anything but your naked post when forwarding it to this
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general newsgroup on the Microsoft public
news server.

But I can report that Adobe Reader 9.1.3 installed easily and runs fine in
my Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

Adobe has produced a TechNote that says they are still trying to get Adobe
Flash Player to run properly in a 64-bit browser. But that's Flash, not
Reader, which does work well in 64-bit Win7; I don't recall for sure, but as
I recall, it ran in Vista x64 before I installed Win7.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
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Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64
 
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